The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

The .xxxiii. Chapter.

[ A]

ANd when they were scaped / then they knewe that the yle was called Milete. And the people of the countre shewed

vs no lytell kyndnes: for they kyndled a fyre and receaved vs every one / because of the pre∣sent rayne / & because of colde. And when Paul had gaddered a boundle of stickes / & put them into the fyre / ther came a viper out of the heet and lept on his honde. When the men of the contre sawe the worme hange on his honde / they sayde amonge thē selves: this man must nedes be a mortherer. Whome (though he ha¦ve escaped the see) yet vengeaunce suffreth not to lyve. But he shouke of the vermen into the fyre / and felt no harme. Howbeit they wayted when he shuld have swolne / or fallen doune deed sodenly. But after they had lo∣ked a greate whyle / and sawe no harme come to him / they chaunged their myndes / and say∣de that he was a God.

In the same quarters / the chefe man of the [ B] yle whose name was Publius / had a lordship pe: the same receaved vs / and lodged vs thre dayes courteously. And it fortuned that the fa¦ther of Publius laye sicke of a fiever / and of a bluddy flixe. To whō Paul entred in & pray∣de / & layde his hondes on him & healed him. When this was done / other also which had* 1.1 diseases in the yle / came and were healed. And they dyd vs gret honoure. And when we de∣parted / they laded vs with thinges necessary.

After thre monethes we departed in a ship of Alexandry / which had wyntred in the yle / whose badge was Castor & Pollux. And whē we came to Cyracusa / we taryed there .iii. day∣es. And from thence we fet a compasse & came

to Regium. And after one daye the south wynde blowe / and we came the next daye to Putiolus: where we founde brethren / & were desyred to tary with them seven dayes / and so came to Rome. And from thence / when y^• bre∣thren [ D] hearde of vs / they came agaynst vs to Apiphorum / & to y^• thre taverns. When Paul sawe thē / he thanked God / and wexed bolde. And when he came to Rome / y^• vnder captay∣ne delyvered y^e presoners to y^• chefe captayne of y^e host: but Paul was suffered to dwell by him selfe with one soudier that kept him.

And it fortuned after thre dayes / that Paul [ E] called y^e chefe of y^• Iewes together. And whē they were come / he sayde vnto thē: Men & bre¦thren / though I have cōmitted nothinge aga∣ynst the people or lawes of oure fathers: yet was I delyvered presoner from Ierusalem in to the hondes of y^e Romayns. Which when they had examined me / wolde have let me goo / because they founde no cause of deeth in me. But when y^• Iewes cryed cōtrary / I was constrayned to appeale vnto Cesar: not becau¦se I had ought to accuse my people of. For this cause have I called for you / evē to se you & to speake with you: because that for the ho∣pe of Israel / I am bounde with this chayne.

And they sayde vnto him: We nether recea¦ved letters out of Iewry pertayninge vnto y^e / nether came eny of the brethren that shewed [ F] or spake eny harme of the. But we will hea∣re of the what thou thynkest. For we have hearde of this secte / that every wheare it is

spoken agaynst. And when they had apoyn∣ted him a daye / ther came many vnto him into his lodgynge. To whom he expounded & te∣stifyed the kyngdome of God / and preached vnto thē of Iesu: both out of the lawe of Mo∣ses and also out of the prophetes / even from mornynge to nyght. And some beleved y^e thin¦ges which were spoken / & some beleved not.

When they agreed not amonge thē selves / they departed / after that Paul had spoken one worde. Well spake the holy goost by Esay y^e* 1.2 prophet vnto oure fathers / sayinge: Goo vn to this people & saye: with youre eares shall ye heare / and shall not vnderstonde: and with* 1.3 youre eyes shall ye se and shall not perceave.

For the hert of this people is wexed gros∣se / and their eares were thycke of hearynge / [ G] & their eyes have they closed: lest they shuld se with their eyes / and heare with their eares / and vnderstonde with their hertes / and shuld be converted / and I shulde heale them. Be it knowen therfore vnto you / that this salva∣cion of God is sent to the gentyls / and they shall heare it. And when he had sayde that / the Iewes departed / and had grete despiciōs amonge them selves.

And Paul dwelt two yeares full in his lod¦gynge / and receaved all that came to him / prea¦chyng the kyngdome of God / and teachynge those thinges which concerned the lorde Ie∣sus / with all confidence / vnforboden.

¶ Here endeth the Actes of the Apostles.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Layenge on of han¦des.
• * 1.2

  esai. vi. c. mar. xiij.
• * 1.3

  mar. iiij. b luc. viij. f ioh. xij. f rom. xj. b